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Re: Adding menu to right side of system menu bar

On 8/31/03 9:30 PM, Neil Shore didst favor us with:

> Hi,
>
> I'm new to the MAC world and have been following this thread and this
> newsgroup to, perhaps, get some idea of how to start. I will be developing an
> app that will need to run on both OS 9 and OS X. Apple docs seem to imply
> that carbon is the way to start.

I think Apple states in no uncertain terms that if you want a code base that
runs in Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X, you have to use Carbon.

> Any suggestions?

If you're just getting started in Mac software development, I'd think long
and hard before I went this route. Well, actually I wouldn't. At this point
I wouldn't even consider starting an application for Mac OS 9. There are
still a fair number of people out there using Mac OS 9, but it's a shrinking
market and IMO it's going to start shrinking even faster with the
introductions of G5 Macs and Panther. So whatever you do, the Mac OS 9
market will be even smaller by the time you have something ready to release.

Even with CarbonLib, there will be things you have to do differently in 9
and X, and things you can't do at all.

With each successive release of Mac OS X you see more good stuff that isn't
available on Mac OS 9 with CarbonLib, and more areas in which the "old ways"
differ from the "new ways." New features, new technologies, I think you'll
be kicking yourself down the road if you spend a bunch of time figuring out
how to do stuff on 9 and X and limit your feature set for Mac OS X users and
the tools you can use just to write something that runs in Mac OS 9.

Larry
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